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The desire for high status drives great powers\u2019 foreign policies. Cambridge University professor Steven Ward discusses how status concerns motivate rising powers like China as well as declining powers like the United States, and how that can produce belligerent policies and exacerbate international tensions.

Show Notes

• Steven Ward bio
• Steven Ward, Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
• Steven Ward, \u201cStatus from Fighting? Reassessing the Relationship Between Conflict Involvement and Diplomatic Risk,\u201d International Interactions 46, no. 2 (February 2020).
• Paul Musgraves and Steven Ward, \u201cTesting Tripwire Theory Using Survey Experiments,\u201d APSA Preprints, 2021.

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